Mark Gaspar
@markgaspar.bsky.social
Copywriter in Atlanta by day (by way of Minneapolis and Chicago)servant to two dogs by the rising and setting of the sun. Lover of all things Minnesota sports. Banjoist.Trying to be formed by wonder.
Read my Substack: https://thisinhabitation.substack.com
Read my Substack: https://thisinhabitation.substack.com
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Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
I love my hometown so much.
This is Minneapolis.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
January 25, 2026 at 5:40 AM
I love my hometown so much.
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"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
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YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
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January 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
This song has been moving through my brain all day.
Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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January 25, 2026 at 3:01 AM
This song has been moving through my brain all day.
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🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
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Remember this: A government willing to kill someone because they're videotaping what the government does ... is a government who knows what they are doing is wrong, and believes that holding them accountable is worthy of execution.
January 25, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Remember this: A government willing to kill someone because they're videotaping what the government does ... is a government who knows what they are doing is wrong, and believes that holding them accountable is worthy of execution.
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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
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NEW
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
NEW
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
Amen and Amen.
Amen to @mattufford.bsky.social here mattufford.com/2026/01/24/t...
Their guns are not enough
Photo illustration; original photograph by Alex Kormann of the Minnesota Star Tribune I have a dark joke that plays on loop in my head, like two lines of an earworm when you’re trying to fall…
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January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Amen and Amen.
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
January 24, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
No real Minnesotan would ever say that anything is better than Minnesota.
It's even more insulting when you remember that Pete Hegseth was born in Minneapolis and grew up on its outskirts.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
No real Minnesotan would ever say that anything is better than Minnesota.
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The mendacity of Kristi Noem is of world historical level - just a thoroughly vile and worthless henchwoman of evil.
January 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The mendacity of Kristi Noem is of world historical level - just a thoroughly vile and worthless henchwoman of evil.
By bringing our humanity to the forefront we show the world their inhumanity.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
By bringing our humanity to the forefront we show the world their inhumanity.
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#DubNation stands with the people of Minneapolis and all communities affected by ICE and federal agents’ actions of violence.
This goes beyond basketball. Lives are lost and many are hurting. Our thoughts are with grieving families and with everyone calling for peace, justice, and accountability.🕊️✊
This goes beyond basketball. Lives are lost and many are hurting. Our thoughts are with grieving families and with everyone calling for peace, justice, and accountability.🕊️✊
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
#DubNation stands with the people of Minneapolis and all communities affected by ICE and federal agents’ actions of violence.
This goes beyond basketball. Lives are lost and many are hurting. Our thoughts are with grieving families and with everyone calling for peace, justice, and accountability.🕊️✊
This goes beyond basketball. Lives are lost and many are hurting. Our thoughts are with grieving families and with everyone calling for peace, justice, and accountability.🕊️✊
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This needs to stop. These goons need to be charged with murder, ICE must be abolished, & every single official involved should be held accountable. My heart goes out to Alex Pretti’s family and friends.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This needs to stop. These goons need to be charged with murder, ICE must be abolished, & every single official involved should be held accountable. My heart goes out to Alex Pretti’s family and friends.
Love this. Been thinking about Jefferson’s words a lot today.
January 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Love this. Been thinking about Jefferson’s words a lot today.
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Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.
May the state flag of Minnesota become a symbol for freedom and anti-facism.
Thousands of people in the streets after #ICE murder another innocent person in Minneapolis this morning.
#Minnesota #Gestapo
#DomesticTerrorism 1/24
#Minnesota #Gestapo
#DomesticTerrorism 1/24
January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
May the state flag of Minnesota become a symbol for freedom and anti-facism.
FYI: if Thomas Jefferson were alive today he’d be rolling out the guillotine himself.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
FYI: if Thomas Jefferson were alive today he’d be rolling out the guillotine himself.
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
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In Rwanda in the early 90s the Hutu Power genocidal militia, the interahamwe targeted Hutu resistors as well as Tutsis just as Trump’s white supremacist interahamwe is doing here — the accompanying propaganda and impunity are also of a piece.
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
In Rwanda in the early 90s the Hutu Power genocidal militia, the interahamwe targeted Hutu resistors as well as Tutsis just as Trump’s white supremacist interahamwe is doing here — the accompanying propaganda and impunity are also of a piece.
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they really thought they could demoralize Vikings fans
January 24, 2026 at 8:27 PM
they really thought they could demoralize Vikings fans